On 4 May 1872 Professor A.E. Nordenskiöld and his team set off from Gothenburg, Sweden towards Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. After spending a challenging winter in Svalbard the team set off on the 6th of May to attempt to be the first team to ever reach the North Pole. The attempt to reach the North Pole was abandoned on 17th of May and the team became the first to explore North East Land instead
